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World’s toughest prisons: The five jails with histories of murder, disease and torture

This is a great article, but dear Lord is it depressing. The prisons include Rikers Island, Bang Kwang (Thailand), La Sante (France), Diyarbakir Prison (Turkey), and Carandiru Prison (Brazil). In one of the prisons featured, 122 inmates committed suicide in one year due to conditions. At another, inmates set themselves on fire to avoid the torture of the guards.